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About Pastor Foley

The Reverend Dr. Eric Foley is CEO and Co-Founder, with his wife Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, supporting the work of persecuted Christians in North Korea and around the world and spreading their discipleship practices worldwide. He is the former International Ambassador for the International Christian Association, the global fellowship of Voice of the Martyrs sister ministries. Pastor Foley is a much sought after speaker, analyst, and project consultant on the North Korean underground church, North Korean defectors, and underground church discipleship. He and Dr. Foley oversee a far-flung staff across Asia that is working to help North Koreans and Christians everywhere grow to fullness in Christ. He earned the Doctor of Management at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio.

Forget “donors” and “nonprofits”. Think “cause cloud”.

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Pastor Foley

Truth: “Giving” today is less and less synonymous with “giving to a nonprofit organization”. This is the challenge for groups like Holden Karnofsky’s GiveWell and Charity Navigator, which dream of a day when donors can consult objective rankings of charities’ … Continue reading →

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“Why people give” is less the question than whether people impact the cause directly or indirectly

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Pastor Foley

While we’ve been hacking through the Engagement underbrush in the last half month’s series of posts, the rest of the philanthroblogger world has been grappling anew with the questions of social impact and personal impact as giving motivators (the four … Continue reading →

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Notes in the key of E: Concluding with one of our nation’s most historic P to E moves

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Pastor Foley

We’ve spent more than half a month now on posts detailing the Engagement level of Transformational Giving (TG). And E deserves every bit of the attention–it truly is the heart of TG. I’m going to give the subject a rest … Continue reading →

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